games-arcade/alex4: create recipe for Alex the Allegator 4. (WIP)

[fbrosson]

TODO: Check if it would be OK to also import the patches in:
http://data.gpo.zugaina.org/gamerlay/games-arcade/alex4/files/
and sync with alex4-1.1 in http://gpo.zugaina.org/games-arcade/alex4

Maybe we should use a (modified) rdef instead of the alex4_BeOS_src/alex4.rsrc in alex4_beos_src.zip, because when Alex4 is launched from command line we see this warning:

Signature in rsrc doesn't match constructor arg. (application/x-vnd.Allegro-Alex4, application/x-vnd.freelunchdesign-alex4)

[fbrosson]

I've just dropped the "beos" suffix in the name of the recipe to match the Gentoo naming conventions.

Does anyone have sound working with Alex4?

[Begasus]

Thanks for taking over, I haven't been on Haiku for a while now (busy with
the dogs), I'll try to take a look at the new PR later this evening :)

2016-06-23 19:36 GMT+02:00 fbrosson notifications@github.com:

I've just dropped the "beos" suffix in the name of the recipe to match the
Gentoo naming conventions.

Does anyone have sound working with Alex4?

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[fbrosson]

No problem ;-)

[Begasus]

Same thing for Terminal here, maye an updated rdef would be better :) and no sound also ...
PS, it still remains in the Deskbar after closing

[Begasus]

If allegro is not installed I get a "nothing provides lib:liballeg_x86>=4.4.2 needed by ..."
Maybe there is something not right for allegro? (also the same as I try to install the devel package for allegro if the lib isn't installed already - although both are available in the packages folder for haikuports)

[fbrosson]

Both allegro and alex4 build OK on x86_gcc2 primary arch. So it should not be asking for any lib:lib*_x86. If you have built on one primary arch (e.g. Haiku/x86), then switched to another arch (e.g. Haiku/x86_gcc2) to build for e.g. x86_gcc2 then you need to clean the work-* build dir before you build for that other primary arch.
haikuporter -c alex4 will get rid of the right work-* directory.

[Begasus]

I know they build ok (allegro and alex - and in this case it was atanks which is x86), the haikuporter -c option I also know of (I usualy do this to net clutter the system to much with unnescecary files:) )
I just ment, if allegro is not installed and I try to install the devel file for allegro I'm getting the message that there is nothing providing allegro (be it x86_gcc2 or x86)

[fbrosson]

Sorry, I though you were having the error message about allegro while installing alex4. I could not guess you had built allegro_x86 and were trying to install atanks_x86 ;-)
BTW, I guess you have found, in the meanwhile, that you needed to install allegro_x86 before (or with) atank_x86.

[waddlesplash]

Can this be merged?

[fbrosson]

The patches mentioned in the TODO part of the commit comment allow to save some prefs. I was willing to integrate them but it needs some time because we would need to patch a patch. That's not difficult but it needs some time because it's almost like solving a puzzle...
Since I currently don't have enough free time for that, I'm OK with merging the recipe like as is.
Should I make some changes in the commit message and/or the title of this PR?

[waddlesplash]

Nah, that's OK.